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Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Certain Corner Improve One Own Self Universe
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Being Country Evolve Incapable Intellect Newton Pay Person Price Progress Race Supreme
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Agreeable Boredom Excessive Liberty Painful Rather Symbol Traveller True
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Assemble Capacity Choice Crowd Lose Moral People Power Reason
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Make Medical Progress Remarkable Science Soon Such Well Will
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Coma Death Full Ignore Last Longer Moment Morphia Shuffle Squirted Yourself
Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Better Born Insane Intelligent One Society Stupid
The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Country Fiction Make Much never People Person Reality Sense Trouble
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Age Carry Child Enthusiasm Genius Lose never Old Secret Spirit
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Children Distinguish Meaningful Meaningless Nowhere Statement Systematic Taught Way
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Been Fear Manipulate Many never
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Against Believe Deepest Evidence Juman Mind
The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Communication Development Infinity Man More Neither Sitraction Totally
If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Gamble never Win
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Illusion Must Seriously Word

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